Bryan Singer Promises Mass Destruction in X-MEN: APOCALYPSE; Internet People Probably Getting Angry

 

In Total Film, Bryan Singer spoke about his upcoming highly anticipated X-Men: Days of Future Past, and then dropped a few hints on to what movie-goers should be expecting when X-Men: Apocalypse hits theaters 2016.

Fair warning, it is expected that those who lived through Zack Snyder's biblical destruction of Metropolis and Smallville in Man of Steel might begin to enter the early stages of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder that they acquired from seeing CGI people in a fantasy action-movie being killed by an alien gravity machine last summer. 

We’re going to deal with the notion of ancient mutants – the fact they were born and existed thousands of years ago. But it’ll be a contemporary movie – well, it’ll take place in the ’80s…The ’80s is a period now – it’s hard for me to believe that!

So it appears X-Men: Apocalypse will continue from the "corrected" time-line established in X-Men: First Class and continued through Days of Future Past. Singer then went on about the film's spectacle:

Apocalypse will have more of the mass destruction that X-Men films, to date, have not relied upon. There’s definitely now a character and a story that allow room for that kind of spectacle… I don’t want to get too specific, but we’ll introduce familiar characters in a younger time. That’ll be fun to show the audience. I call these movies in-between-quels. It’s a mind-fuck sometimes in terms of where things fall in the timeline!

Now, this is interesting, as the X-Men films have, historically, been sort of "self-contained" as opposed to the big-budget spectacle recent adaptions like The Avengers and Man of Steel which featured intense city-wide battles.
The closest we've come until Days of Future Past was X-Men: The Last Stand's show-down with the Brooklyn Bridge and the Danger Room sequence showing a devastated world over-run by Sentinels.

Synger went on saying:

It all stems back to when I did [the first] X-Men,” he said. “You always want to know where a character’s going to go, what their future’s going be like. You can always sequelise. … As a director, you always need a backstory to give your actors. It may not be the right backstory, but it’s one you can give the actor to help them understand their character. These prequels are really exciting for me because they give me a chance to explore ideas I came up with more than a decade ago

The X-Men: Days of Future Past issue of Total Film is on news-stands now, and the film hits theaters this May.